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Affonso Dalboquerque was born in 1453 in the town of Alhandra near Lisbon. He was the 2nd son of Guncala de Alborquerque and Leronor de Menazes. His first voyage to Asia was in the year 1503. This work which is divided into 4 volumes describes and discusses his career in Asia, and as the 2nd viceroy of Portuguese Asia. The work is the English translation of the original Portuguese work (written by Affonso's son and originally published in 1774), by Walter de Birch, the senior assistant to the department of archives in the British Museum. The first volume is of the period 1453 to 1508; it contains 256 pages an introduction of 53 pages, and relates to the first and second visits to India, the proceedings at Hormus, the raising of the blockade, and his arrival Cannor where he meets the viceroy whom he later supercedes. The 2nd volume, from 1500 to 1510, containing 124 pages of introduction beside the 242 pages of describes his circumstances of his appointment as viceroy instead of Almeida, and the events from hi